Lafayette Professor Receives Novel Grant Campus

Dr. Ruth Knafo Setton, a visiting professor of English at Lafayette College since September 1984, has been awarded a $2,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature.

The grant will allow Setton, who received her doctorate at Rice University and took her undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Denver, to begin work on her second novel. Her first, "Suleika," is now being considered by a publisher.

Setton was previously employed as a book reviewer for the Houston Chronicle, and as distribution manager of Steimatzky's, Israel's largest book firm. She was also a teacher of English and French grammar and literature.